SHOULD YOU RUSH THE RUINS? | Don't Starve Together Ruins Rushing Guide

I know I said 50% in the guide but I can confirm that the Lvl 3 Shadow Rook will need at least 55% speed boost to dodge. This can be achieved with a walking cane and road. A mag + road will only give 50% and will not guarantee a dodge.

Should you rush the ruins?
Pros: of course, benefits are immense
95% of the players: just noobs like me, rushing ruins is a great way to die early)

These guides are really great compared to Beard's
No stupid jokes or making me feel like a child and well written

You ever just look inside a Ruin Rusher's head and wonder "What are they thinking?"

No but you still gonna do it anyway....

As a player with almost 200 hours in the game I've never found the ruins

Here's the thing about ruins rushing, for me, at least- it's not much of a test. It's a component of my early gathering phase, and by far the most dangerous. When you get good enough at kiting and inventory management, rushing the ruins becomes this numbers game, where the only way you lose is if you don't prepare enough stuff beforehand. I never die to clockworks or nightmares or splumonkeys, but I'll die to starvation now and again when I'm trying to get the ruins portion over with so I can get my good equipment. Bosses in DST are the sort of endgame of fun for me, where most of what I'm doing is building up to my next big fight, and even without good loot, fun boss fights like Toadstool can be rewarding on their own. The ruins, though... eh.

No

Yes it’s good and all but I’ve lost all of my good worlds in the ruins

That throne looks sick at the start of the video

I think imma make new world first and search the ruins there cuz my world is day 56 and I don't want to die

Dies. Dies. Dies. Dies. Dies.
To answer your question, no. I, specifically, should not rush the ruins.

For me, one of the biggest dissuasions is that ancient items can't be prototyped. Because of this, I'm always going to need to go back to the station anyway, so why rush for the crafting recipes? Rushing just means I'm more likely not to have the storage or resource for the crafting materials. I'd probably hit the Ruins for gears for ice boxes, head back up, prep a surface base and a cave base, and then come back to the ruins when i'm ready.

Edit: Forgot to mention a part of my logic here: Durability. If I craft an ancient piece of equipment, it will eventually break, anyhow, again bringing up the issue of needing to return to the station.

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Me a webber main: 👁️👄👁️

I just recently started a world and there are no chess pieces so I am watching this after realizing it's day 30 and I have no refrigerator

I highly recommend to rush ruins if you are Wanda

It also depens if u are good enough to clear the ruins with the current gear

I didn’t mean to rush ruins but found the station near the start of a cave at day 4

My last attempt at the ruins. I heard the monkeys and that was it. I didn't know what the nightmare cycle was on so I didn't want to chance the shadow monkeys.
Football helmets don't last long, but had hambats

?just go into the ruins at winter?

um i tried to rush and i got just dead ends

Im the only one in my friend group that does stuff like this. My friend who is a wx main, he will do the dumbest things for something that could have been done easily

Or just wait to summer to rush ruins(?

I love this style of video. Fast, and informative while taking other play styles into account.

Or you could use a marble suit and switch between log suit when you want to move

I've gone through the list of things you can get from a ruins rush and to be honest there's not much that I would want except for a star caller staff, which would be quite nice to have for night time boss fights, and perhaps a mag if I want an early shadow pieces fight. A thulecite club might be good for the speed boost. Nightmare fuel is nice for darkswords, but you can go insane and get it anywhere anytime. I don't really need the fancy armor(crown, suit) if I build a pig farm, the wires might be convenient but not really a must for gold, so are red/blue/purple gems, and gears you only need 1-2 for one base. So generally I don't feel the need for a ruins rush, it might be fun though.

Head and body armour stack? Thought that wasn't the case in dst

When you only have 4 thulecite

Wait mag with 20 percent waking cane with 25 percent and the club =55 percent!!!!!!

The ruins scare me and I'll probably never step foot in them. I have only about 120 hours of gameplay. I only use caves for lanterns and I've never been to the Lunar Islands :^/

So I downloaded this on app store. Does reign of giant have ruins? I like wx78 a lot

I found the walking cane in day 3

now i realize how lucky i am for getting a walking cane on day 3 from a dead body

Only rush the ruins if your a very aggressive player or seasoned in being in sticky situations cause it's dangerous down there if your a new player then dont bother with it just wait till summer either way the ruins are great

“It costs a lot of living logs and there not easy to come by” wormwood mains (laughs in infinite easy living logs)

no

Personally I go for the ruins in summer because I don't have to deal with Antlion and overheatting until next summer when I am more prepared to go ruin hunting

You have good voise

I actually acquired a LARGE amount of marble just casually as I built up my base in my current world. I just would plant 18 marble seeds, and then keep the regular 18 marble with my other rocks in a chest. I accidentally harvested them AGAIN when I only wanted about a full stack, so I replanted 36 for future use. Hahaha

I mean, WX mains can just rush the ruins and get food, sanity and health for 13 days straight, just from eating gears and getting more health, sanity and hunger

it usually takes me at least 18 days to even locate the ruins, i guess i'm very unlucky

Only rush the ruins if your a seasoned DST player I see so many noobs rush the ruins just to be Mercked 😂

hey where did our wx go?
wx: im just gonna go in the cave to map it out
20 days later.....
wx: im back fully upgraded, with 50 gears, 800 gold, and infinite nightmare fuel

just did my first ruins rush thanks to this vid

When you rush the ruins, do you clear everything? Or just get your magic items and dip?

figting ancient guardian is easy without any armor and speed boost you only need to find pillar near the edge of the world and hide behind it then you can fight ancient guarduan when he's glitched by the pillar

Should you rush ruins? Hell no. I did it and was only able to get one thulecite crown. After 19 days in caves mind you

ive played dst for over 200 hours and i've never seen the ruins